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<h3 class="section">8.7 Exceptions</h3>

<p>GNU Objective-C provides exception support built into the language, as
in the following example:
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<pre class="smallexample">  @try {
    &hellip;
       @throw expr;
    &hellip;
  }
  @catch (AnObjCClass *exc) {
    &hellip;
      @throw expr;
    &hellip;
      @throw;
    &hellip;
  }
  @catch (AnotherClass *exc) {
    &hellip;
  }
  @catch (id allOthers) {
    &hellip;
  }
  @finally {
    &hellip;
      @throw expr;
    &hellip;
  }
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<p>The <code>@throw</code> statement may appear anywhere in an Objective-C or
Objective-C++ program; when used inside of a <code>@catch</code> block, the
<code>@throw</code> may appear without an argument (as shown above), in
which case the object caught by the <code>@catch</code> will be rethrown.
</p>
<p>Note that only (pointers to) Objective-C objects may be thrown and
caught using this scheme.  When an object is thrown, it will be caught
by the nearest <code>@catch</code> clause capable of handling objects of
that type, analogously to how <code>catch</code> blocks work in C++ and
Java.  A <code>@catch(id &hellip;)</code> clause (as shown above) may also
be provided to catch any and all Objective-C exceptions not caught by
previous <code>@catch</code> clauses (if any).
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<p>The <code>@finally</code> clause, if present, will be executed upon exit
from the immediately preceding <code>@try &hellip; @catch</code> section.
This will happen regardless of whether any exceptions are thrown,
caught or rethrown inside the <code>@try &hellip; @catch</code> section,
analogously to the behavior of the <code>finally</code> clause in Java.
</p>
<p>There are several caveats to using the new exception mechanism:
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<ul>
<li> The <samp>-fobjc-exceptions</samp> command line option must be used when
compiling Objective-C files that use exceptions.

</li><li> With the GNU runtime, exceptions are always implemented as &ldquo;native&rdquo;
exceptions and it is recommended that the <samp>-fexceptions</samp> and
<samp>-shared-libgcc</samp> options are used when linking.

</li><li> With the NeXT runtime, although currently designed to be binary
compatible with <code>NS_HANDLER</code>-style idioms provided by the
<code>NSException</code> class, the new exceptions can only be used on Mac
OS X 10.3 (Panther) and later systems, due to additional functionality
needed in the NeXT Objective-C runtime.

</li><li> As mentioned above, the new exceptions do not support handling
types other than Objective-C objects.   Furthermore, when used from
Objective-C++, the Objective-C exception model does not interoperate with C++
exceptions at this time.  This means you cannot <code>@throw</code> an exception
from Objective-C and <code>catch</code> it in C++, or vice versa
(i.e., <code>throw &hellip; @catch</code>).
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